WINNER - SUNDANCE, World Cinema Directing Award, 2010
WINNER - BELDOCS INTERNATIONAL, Best Photography, 2010
How can you put a price on a dream? For Anousheh Ansari, no price is too high to achieve her childhood wish: traveling to outer space. Follow Anousheh along her journey as she fulfills her goal of traveling to space and spending a week as a tourist on the International Space Station for the mere price of $20 million dollars.
Taking a humorous and laconic view into the space tourism industry while simultaneously exploring the depths of mankind's ability to dream, "SPACE TOURISTS" depicts encounters with the least likely of characters imaginable and places even stranger and more unknown than outer space itself. With extraordinary access and startlingly original images, the film investigates the emotional oscillations of an expensive enterprise and the hunger of the human spirit for adventure and discovery. (58 minutes, 2009)